“Old age begins when reflection overcomes planning.”

“This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.”

“90/93-year-old Jacob wonders as he gazes at his aged reflection, 'When did I stop being me?”

“Old age is not that bad when you consider the alternative.”

“A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country. This is not so strange when you reflect that from the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture...”

“For he had acquired a lore in his youth which taught him ever to avoid the aged when merry plans were afoot; for the aged would come with their wisdom and slowness of thought, and other plans would be made, and there would be, at least, delay.”